The second season of “Glee” kicked off last night and immediately cast aside any worries of a sophomore slump with an absolutely reinvigorating opening scene that not only directly addressed the show’s biggest critics, but seriously brought the funny. It also proved that while New Directions was ready for a new beginning, they weren’t going to be getting one any time soon.

Summer didn’t change much besides Rachel’s bangs — she’s still a capital D diva, Will is still clueless when it comes to social politics, Kurt is still getting slushied and Brittany is still lost. Both literally and figuratively: “people thought I went on vacation, but I actually spent the summer lost in the sewers,” she told roaming reporter Jacob Ben Israel.

As for Tina, she spent her summer vacation at Asian Camp falling in love with Mike Chang as he danced shirtless around campers in the moonlight. Which led to the dancer’s first piece of dialogue ever: “totally racist.” Congrats on the line Mike … and the abs.

We also met the new football coach, a few new students and Santana’s new boobs, which led Sue to revoke her Cheerio status and Quinn to reclaim the captain’s crown. These pom-pom politics opened the door for the show’s first ever legit girl fight. Gotta give those straight guys something, right “Glee?”

Going into year two, I assumed the addition of Coach Beiste (“it’s French”) would be the toughest landing to nail. And while I was right about the difficulty level, I found myself holding up a card with “10” on it by night’s end.

Sure she was a little bit caricature-ish at times, but some unexpected emotions popping up in some unwise places left me curious and excited about what she’d get up to this season. Particularly in regards to her Sue rivalry. You know that’s going to get worse before it gets better … although I don’t know what could be worse than poop cookies. Yea, that happened.

The newbies also wholly worked for me. Although his introduction was a little awkward — I grasp the season one homage, but Finn spying on Sam in the shower could have gone really awry if the soapy jock had opened his eyes — he not only delivered my favorite song of the night (“Billionaire”) but delivered a line that made me snarf my soda while defending his giant mouth to Puck.

The big addition this year was Charice as Sunshine and while she wasn’t given a whole lot of dialogue to work with, her two songs were fabulous. Sunshine revisited Charice’s fame-making “Listen” and dabbled in a brief bathroom duet with Rachel that was so delightful, for the first time I wished Sue wasn’t included in a scene.

Another inclusion I could have done without throughout “Telephone” was Rachel’s odd hair-whipping. I know we had a whole episode that talked about the intimidation factor “Hairography” elicits, but flipping your locks a total of 12 times in under one minute seems excessive. However, Lea’s performance throughout the scene was classic Rachel, and I lapped up every second of it.

“You like me sing. You like me sing very much.”

With my “Glee” obsession back in full swing, I worry for my sanity next week — because this teaser of the Britney Spears themed episode looks so epic, I might go nuts and shave my head in anticipation.